How does cpanel-based hosting operate?
For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel-based web site hosting offers on today's webspace hosting marketplace are provided by a quite insubstantial marketing segment (when it comes to yearly money flow) known as hosting reseller. Reseller hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing segment, which provides a huge number of different web hosting brand names, yet offering the very same services: mostly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Because of the fact that at least 98 percent of the webspace hosting offers on the whole hosting marketplace provide the same solution: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel-based webspace hosting prices are similar. Quite identical. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/website hosting CP option. So, there is just one fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting trademarks in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...
Two hundred thousand "hosting providers", all cPanel-based, yet uniquely labeled
The hosting "diversity" and the web site hosting "offerings" Google presents to us come down to merely one and the very same thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web site hosting trademarked names. Assume you are just a regular fellow who's not very well aware of (as the majority of us) with the website making procedures and the site hosting platforms, which in fact power the different domain names and sites . Are you ready to make your web hosting decision? Is there any site hosting option you can choose? Of course there is, today there are more than two hundred thousand website hosting firms in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web hosting brand names around the world will give you the same cPanel CP and platform, dubbed differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the present-day web space hosting market is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTO we are all part of
Simple arithmetic shows that to choose a non-cPanel based web hosting company is a big stroke of fortune. There is a less than one in 50 chance that a thing like that will take place! Less than 1 in fifty...
The positive and negative sides of the cPanel web page hosting solution
Let's not be relentless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and possibly satisfied most web page hosting industry preconditions. In brief, cPanel can do the job for you if you have only one single domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Problem No.1: An imbecilic domain folder arrangement
If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to delete completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will dub each next hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to remove on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder situated inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Observe for yourself how amazing cPanel's domain name folder arrangement is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)
Are you growing perplexed? We categorically are!
Inconvenience Number Two: The very same e-mail folder arrangement
The mail folder configuration on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same mistake twice?!? The sysadmin guys firmly increase their faith in God when coping with the mail folders on the mail server, praying not to muck things up too harshly.
Problem Number 3: An entire absence of domain name manipulation options
Do we need to point out the absolute absence of a modern domain manipulation interface - a place where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domains, change domains' Whois details, secure the Whois info, modify/create nameservers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not furnish such a "contemporary" menu at all. That's a major problem. An unforgettable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Side Number 4: Many user login places (minimum two, maximum 3)
What about the demand for an additional login to make use of the invoicing transaction, domain and technical support administration user interface? That's apart from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel site hosting firm. Occasionally, on the basis of the invoice transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting company is using, the ardent customers can end up with 2 additional logins (1: the invoice transaction/domain management interface; 2: the ticket support tool), ending up with an aggregate of 3 login places (counting cPanel).
Weak Point Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty webspace hosting Control Panel areas to get familiar with... fast
cPanel presents for your consideration 120+ menus inside the hosting CP. It's a fabulous idea to learn each one of them. And you'd better become acquainted with them rapidly... That's very impudent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based hosting distributors:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...